Many thanks to cousins and friends William M. and Betty Palmer who shared much data with me! Also, many thanks to Keith Lowrey for the photo of Cam and Stacy (Welch) Taylor and a lot of data on his ancestor, Campbell Harrison Taylor! Many thanks to cousin and dear friend Page (Pearson) Wester for a great deal of data on these lines and especially on the Meroney family! Thanks also to Patricia Simmons for her research on Welch descendants and to both Brenda (Hallock) Story and Janice Lee (Hedger) Bradford for data on David Welch's descendants! Last but certainly not least, many thanks to June Herman for copies of photos, loads of data, and her tireless work in researching descendants of Welch, Powell, Parker, and Taylor lines! Also, many thanks to Dwight and Bill Allison for photos and much info on Welch, Dawes, and Panther families!

*great-great-great-great-great-grandparents of Sandra Ratledge (See McDonald line for my ancestry.)

This site is dedicated to the memory of my parents, Tommy and Beulah (Cline) Nipper.